how to let others connect to my sql server 2005?

Hi,

My collegue is trying to connect to my sql server 2005 using login 'sa' but he is not able to. It gives the following error :-

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 233)

Please suggest

Ashu sharma

You have to enable remote connections:

http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3496511
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=204199&SiteID=1

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.

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Still not working, all the protocols are enable and i have also allowed remote connection.

Any Idea?

Ashu

|||Did you fire up SQL Browser? Do you have a firewall running? Checkout this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress/archive/2005/05/05/415084.aspx|||

Check also this here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2005/09/28/474698.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2005/10/22/483684.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2005/10/29/486861.aspx

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.